For the first time in Spain and perhaps in all of Europe, an airport has turned into a macro-discotheque for twelve hours, with dozens of djs, alcohol at your discretion and fever at night. The first Lleida Airport Remember Festival (sic), held from six in the afternoon on Saturday to six in the morning yesterday, was a huge success.
The 12 hours of more activity and frenzy at the nice Lleida-Alguaire airport since it was inaugurated in 2010?
Created, financed and managed by the Generalitat, we will agree that it is one of those Iberian fiascos from the very beginning of the 21st century when Castile, Catalonia and La Mancha were wide. Everything in a big way: AVE and new airports.
No one complained or remembered it, from Rodalies, neither here nor in Navalcarnero. Think big! In Castilian: a lo loco, a loco se vive mejor ... Of course, everyone demanded their airport and their AVE station, especially in Catalonia, the only community where all the provincial capitals, all of them, have of high-speed station (naps included, such as the absurd location of Tarragona). And with more airports than we need...
When the financial crisis broke out, the Generalitat and independence found an infallible solution: the complaint, elevated to government culture (see the dire situation of Rodalies and the current demand for magic wands).
For years, the invariable example of waste for many independence supporters was Castelló airport. ever Don't know! By comparison, it registered 15,079 passengers last March, for 2,700 in Lleida (31% less than in 2022). You understand, of course, such an innovative festival in one weekend...
The situation of Rodalies in Catalonia is painful, but there is a powerful and plausible investment plan. What is wrong in a mature society is to demand miracles overnight. And what is opportunistic, childish and whiny is to attribute all responsibility for the fiasco to the Central State.
Did someone in the Generalitat complain that Adif invested 56,000 million euros between 1990 and 2010 in high-speed lines and 3,700 in commuter lines? It's time to do more, look forward and cry less.
